Rask
Name: Rask
Joined On: Jul 30, 2006
Maintag: Anirask
Age: 30
Occupation: IT
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Last seen: 12/2/08
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11/20/08
I love my avatar!
Nothing really to add aside from that. My Avatar is now on many of the forums I frequent as well as my Facebook picture.
Yes, I'm a geek, I'm confortable being a geek and I don't particularly care what anyone else thinks about it =)
Posted by Rask @ 12:26 pm EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments
06/14/08
Blu-Ray truly better?? (MGS4 MULTIPLE INSTALLS)
So I'm catching up on a few blogs and come across PA's Tycho's post from Friday, June 13th.The last part struck me as very interesting:
"In the space of our play experience, we've already seen two separate installs. The game is still broken up into discrete areas, which I found odd, the assumption being that if we were taking time out to install shit it was because we were doing it to sustain a single world. You would have a hard time convincing me that multiple installs over the course of playing a videogame are worse than disc swapping. This has become some kind of theological question on forums, a kind of philosophical pinata, except no matter how many times you strike it no reward is forthcoming. Blu-Ray is only a convenience if it is actually convenient, if it doesn't require concessions either at the beginning of an experience or at several points throughout. It's amazing to me that this is considered progress."
This it is true that DVD9 would be a problem because of the apparent sheer size of the cutscenes, I can't see how 5 different installs (1 when you first start and one between each game act) that are roughly 3-4 minutes long is even remotely better than the 30-45 seconds it takes to swap disks between chapters.
I guess the whole Konami NDR thing on install times in reviews kinda make sense now..
Posted by Rask @ 8:16 am EDT | Permalink | 0 Comments
05/06/08
*GTA 4 SPOILERS* Am I playing this wrong??
Spoilers ahead. If you haven't played Three Leaf Clover then turn back now...
So I've been playing GTA4 like just about every person on the planet the last week. Now I've been playing this with the angle that I won't kill any innocent bystanders/pedestrians and cops randomly just for the hell of it. It's a personal decision really and doesn't detract from the game at all so it's worked for most of the missions I've done till now (I've jumped from 2nd story of buildings on some instances in order to avoid the cops altogether in one particular mission) and it actually added to the game experience for me..
However, along comes Three Leaf Clover... Now the concept of the mission and the setup are great. The gunfights are epic and the mad dash through Algonquin on foot is fantastic. I was just mildly put off that in a sandbox game such as this, I was put on such a rigid path through and forced to kill so many cops in order to succeed. I mean there are other missions where you get the decision to let the target live and that's the decision I usually take when confronted with the choice, so why not here...
This is a game that's all about options(as most sandbox games are..), I'm forced to wonder why didn't Rockstar offer an option to try and dodge the cops and use an alternate route out of the bank instead of going through the shooting spree. I think that adding a non-violent(or at least less violent path) through the city could've had pretty much the same dramatic effect without the insanely high police bodycount.
So am I the only one that is playing Niko as a mercenary with a conscience?
Posted by Rask @ 9:55 am EDT | Permalink | 0 Comments
01/09/08
Wow. I just got Perma-banned from Blu-Ray.com... =P
So since the Warner announcement that they were going Blu, I decided to start reading up on some HD-DVD and Blu-Ray forums(namely the General discussion board on forum.blu-ray.com and forum.hd-dvd.com).
One thing that really surprised me was how similar everything on those boards were. So I decided to do some digging... As it turns out, both boards and sites are run by the same people.
After I was done I posted the following on Blu-Ray.com...
Title: HD-DVD.COM and Blu-Ray.com run by the same people....
A few quick web searches and there you go. If you look at the whois info about both domains, the only thing they share in common is that they have been registered with the same anonymity service.
http://www.enom.com/domains/whois.asp?DomainName=hd-dvd.com
http://www.enom.com/domains/whois.asp?DomainName=blu-ray.com
Both domains registered by the same anonymous source and 12 days apart in 2002 is circumstancial at best however if you need at the DNS records for both company, you come up with something interesting..
The 2 are setup almost exactly in the same manner but that isn't really proof of anything. If you examine the DNS info below however, notice that both domains use the same e-mail server at the same IP address. An IP address on the same address block by all machines that run HD-DVD.com.
> blu-ray.com
Server: [69.28.242.195]
Address: 69.28.242.195:53
blu-ray.com MX preference = 0, mail exchanger = mochine.com
blu-ray.com internet address = 69.90.124.146
blu-ray.com nameserver = ns1.blu-ray.com
blu-ray.com nameserver = ns2.blu-ray.com
mochine.com internet address = 69.28.242.194
ns1.blu-ray.com internet address = 69.90.124.144
ns2.blu-ray.com internet address = 69.90.124.145
> hd-dvd.com
Server: [69.28.242.195]
Address: 69.28.242.195
hd-dvd.com MX preference = 0, mail exchanger = mochine.com
hd-dvd.com nameserver = ns1.hd-dvd.com
hd-dvd.com nameserver = ns2.hd-dvd.com
hd-dvd.com internet address = 69.28.242.201
mochine.com internet address = 69.28.242.194
ns1.hd-dvd.com internet address = 69.28.242.195
ns2.hd-dvd.com internet address = 69.28.242.196
After about 5-10 minutes, this post got deleted.
I had copied and pasted the content to a text file and decided that I was going to post it again from work when I got there(I was running late-ish at this point).
So I get to work and I post it under the same username and password and they banned me for a week. (After that I realised I had a previous account there, posted again and got a lifetime ban on both accounts =P No real worries though, the thought process of the folks there is about on par with SonyDefenceforce.com anyways.)
Here's a few of the examples of threads that were there..
- MS/Toshiba bashing
- Bashing of HD Movie downloads
- Bashing of any HD format that wasn't Blu-Ray
- Bashing of anything not 1080p/7.1 Lossless
- Massive praising of the PS3
- Massive bashing of the 360
- Bashing/Boycott talk of Paramount/Universal (the HD-DVD holdouts)
What really bugs me is who is running these concurrent sites and why. Is it a third party market research firm? Studios trying to find out people's views? Marketing moles trying to train people into becoming word of mouth advertisers?
Anyhow, the odds of me returning to that site are slim to none anyhow, I just thought the whole ordeal was rather humorous and I thought I'd share.
Posted by Rask @ 1:41 pm EDT | Permalink | 3 Comments
11/27/07
So what's with the negative ratings?
I'm a bit confused about the rating...
Does this mean that someone disliked a specific post or the blog as a whole?
Will people give neg ratings if a blog hasn't been updated in a while or as retribution to a post on the boards that was of a contrary viewpoint to their own?
I'm not really complaining as I really could care less about a -1 on a blog that hasn't really been updated in 3 months. I was just ultimately more curious on how the system works.
Maybe I need a colorful banner or more tits...
- Rask
Posted by Rask @ 11:01 am EDT | Permalink | 10 Comments
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